"Master..." Saber spoke up, her voice heavy. Twice stood in our way. His servant, a god, I believe..of Hindu or Buddhist belief? He spoke to me about war, machines...creation...the end, new life. All of this stuff rambled along in my mind. The battle with his Servant before hand lasted what seemed to be hours. Saber's and my own prana drained to it's absolute bare minimal, my supplies I gathered throughout my 'travels' in the Digital Sea known as the Holy Grail War exhausted, the people I knew before reaching this day are now but memories that haunt me still to this very moment.

Was I a cold, ruthless killing machine that simply did not know it's own purpose in life? Was I never meant to be, yet somehow was given life through some miracle? Some..some sick, twisted play of fate. Did the SE. RA. PH do this all just to get me to win? Twice said that he himself is like me: Fake. A being that once entered the realm of the Grail would be forever deleted, torn to shreds.

But one thing was eating at my mind during the fight...Twice said he twisted this realm, molded it, shaped it..made it his own. That he himself created the Holy Grail War...how is it that he made the one thing that could never give him what he needed in life. The one weapon that could end us all, was forever out of this man's reach.

"Master..." Saber spoke up once again. I slowly turned my head to her. It pained me to leave her, and with Rin watching alongside, I knew I really only had one thing to do. I slowly made my way towards the Grail, thoughts swirling in my head. Countless numbers of dreams and desires entered and exited my mind. The machine known as the Holy Grail was mine, and mine alone. All the killing to be done to even lay eyes on it...and Twice was there to stop them in hopes of someone like me. In his final breathes before fading to the black void of oblivion, he asked me to see the world through the Grail as he pictured the world to be. Maybe then I could judge him better, maybe then see that he was not as insane as I once thought. I only heard the sound of water swishing beneath my feet as I walked closer and closer. What Savior said, as well, stuck with me. Nirvana...the ultimate happiness.

Could that be what Twice was going after? Just the world as it's happiest? When one..like myself, thinks of happiness, it's usually with their family and friends...or having a family of their own...having their dream job...that big house and car they wanted...no sickness and no financial worry...to be alone and play games of computers...o-or just be with friends every day. Twice...had a different approach. End it. Return the world to it's virgin state and let life start anew in hopes that war, turmoil, and human ignorance would never blossom and eradicate the silent and subtle beauty that we overlook every day in this mighty world: Trees...animals...heck the wind and sun. Maybe...Twice isn't wrong...

Rin continued to talk for a bit as my thoughts swirled and raced. She ended herself with a sigh, and myself thankful she cut herself off. It's painful to leave Rin like this, but...even more so for Saber. She's been with me ever since I was forced into this unholy mess of a test. Ever by my side and never faltering in her fate for me. Yes, she came off as cuddly as a cactus...but she warmed up to me, and I to her. We made a team, we filled in for the weaknesses we had. I taught her, and she taught me. We both pushed death aside who knows how many times...heh. I looked over as Saber slowly, seeing her simply smile ever so slightly. I turned my head again and continues.

"Sank a sea terror...killed a world known thief...ripped up a timeless storybook, retook the night from demons, assassinated the assassin, claimed the three families, and finally ruled over the table." I chuckled quietly to myself. I stopped myself, and looked up slowly. I couldn't help but smile ever so slightly. I wanted to run, and I wanted to give up, let myself die and get erased, but Saber helped me move on. Her pumice stone-like abrasion helped me carry on, and continue forwards, still while letting me have what time I needed to recollect myself after those fights. I'll never forget that Emperor...

I made my way up the flight of stairs, slowly. Each step had the weight of the world under it. I shook my head to clear my mind, and reached out to the grail as soon as I could...within seconds, it engulfed me..swallowing me whole and absorbing me.

I don't know what happened to me..I felt light, weightless. I could hear the sounds of bubbles lifting off my body and floating away, popping at the surface, yet I couldn't move. There I floated in the water-like space that, to me, seemed as endless as the Holy Grail's dungeons. I couldn't move, yet, in that stillness I felt, it came to me. What Twice was talking about. The Holy Grail, as he said, was recording history. From the moment of our planet's conception, to the day it will die...and beyond that..it was there, silently watching, writing down what happened...as if to take notes. The mangled mess of information that rushed through my mind would easily have caused a normal human to be overwhelmed, stupefying them in the Grail's endless, limitless vaults of knowledge and lore. In my mind, however...it was clear. Perhaps...Twice wasn't wrong...yet wasn't right. His mind was clouded in a sea of anger and rage, that the simple beauty of the Grail, and the Moon Cell was clouded from him.

No...I can't get distracted! I calmed myself before telling the Grail my wish. I prayed that I did not somehow mess up. I heard clacking, as if someone was angrily..or at least hastily hammering on a keyboard, before a loud 'click!', like the typer hit the enter key. I sighed. 'Time for me to wait...' I thought, as I waited for myself to be deleted. In the meantime, human curiosity did get the best of me, and with the infinity of the Grail pressing all of time into a mere second, looking at my end wasn't going to cause some sort of time-causality loop, was it?

"...this cannot be right..." I heard. If I could look around, I would. But the voice rang familiar...Saber? I was deeply shocked as to how I did not notice her following me inside.

"How dare you act in such a manner, Praetor!" Saber scolded me. "It is your duty, after all, to known my whereabouts at all times, correct?"

...I KNEW I couldn't get away from a scolding. But I couldn't help but laugh in my mind. Even in the face of my death, Saber didn't treat me any different. Maybe to her, I was Emperor...heh.

"Praetor..." Saber growled. Okay, okay I'm listening! "No matter what you are doing, no matter where...as long as you are in the Grail War, I am your Servant, and I will always be by your side..lending you my strength. And at this time, you do seem to need it, do you not?"

I couldn't help but chuckle again in my mind. She came to help me...prolonging my deletion. I guess this is a good thing? More time with her..the one whom without I couldn't have even been here. But something just didn't feel right...

"W-wait...what is this..cyrogen-..." Saber started, stumbling over the words. Cryogenics? Frozen? I quickly took a peek with the Holy Grail to help. A pool of data overtook me as I began to piece it together. A patient with a fatal brain disease...that attacks memory? The doctor who knew how to treat it...i-is dead? Terrorist...A-Attack? That...that's me...I'm a being created of that data...a boy trapped in a never ending dream..o-or nightmare...waiting until one person can come and wake me up and..save my life...I'm still in the Holy Grail...for it to gather data on this event. There was silence in my racing thoughts. I suddenly started to burst out in mental laughter, waves of fear, sadness, anger...and joy overtaking each other.

'I gave a doll life...by me being born inside this world, I let that boy live out one hell of a dream that he will never forget!' I thought myself. I still have time though before my utter end...I must do something...

"So...that really is you, huh?" Rin chuckled. "I guess you do have his heart...so you ARE him. Well, with you living in the same time as I, I guess I have to find you now, don't I?" She started walking. "Well, if I found out your still sleeping when I DO find you...I'll keep beating you until you wake up...no doubt that one of my outbursts will wake you up!" She smiled. "So...just wait...I promise I'll find you."

"So...it seems that you do exist outside too. Well, I grant you the permission to come visit me occasionally, Master. In fact, please visit as often and freely as you'd like." Saber said as her voice slowly faded off into nothing. Two people..one who will look for me...and one who will wait for me. The future...as Twice seen it, isn't that different from my own. Just that, now...I'm not afraid to face this world! I would only hope that the me inside that chamber would have a friend to guide him along his ways.

As I tried to say my final, heavy words as a being...I felt my lips say the words...yet nothing coming out. I didn't feel sad, or angry..for I knew those words would be forever recorded in the Holy Grail.

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